Weekend tinplate photos/videos 12/21/18!

A couple of things...first, a ratbag Ives boxcar found in a local antique mall:

Then, we fulfilled a long-held objective and got the Lionel 33/35/36 set running around the tree:

A late-production 33, from ~ 1925-1926...runs like a champ, despite a chunk missing from a drive wheel and a few teeth missing from the pinion gear.

Hope everyone has a great holiday!

PD

I like that rat bag Ives car!

I've fixed a few damaged drive wheel flanges with JB Weld.

Two JEP sets from the thirties. One with the salt box locomotive is a high voltage but it also run very well with 20 volts transformer.

The second one is from 1935 and contains the classic Fléchette steam loco.

Now we can imagine those sets have been Christmas gifts unfortunatety toy train memorie has been lost and they do not speak ....

Have a great tinplate weekend and Merry Christmas everybody.  Daniel

I really like elevated railways. A friend in Germany sent me photos of an 0 gauge home-made tinplate elevated line. His description: "The station roof was vegetable tin cans  in their first life ....The posts are self made as well - brass tubes with a cast around ...."

Two weeks ago I found this Sakai Hudson & Pacific train; it had the loco, tanker, boxcar and caboose; I already had the gondola and a caboose (in better condition), so now it is a complete train. I think I will respray de loco but further it looks good (and runs good). 

Regards

Fred

 Had a rough week? Lots of bumps and potholes on the journey from Monday to Friday morning?  No worries, the weekend is coming up fast and no matter how you look at it or which way you are going it looks like it is going to be a fast, smooth, streamlined ride into the tinplate weekend.    (Marx, American Flyer, Hoge, Western Coil and Electric).

ALL GREAT PHOTOS! Thanks, and MERRY CHRISTMAS and a JOYOUS NOEL to our European friends!

Tinplate Art posted:

ALL GREAT PHOTOS! Thanks, and MERRY CHRISTMAS and a JOYOUS NOEL to our European friends!

Thanks you Art, Merry Christmas to you and take care,  Daniel

A venerable Lionel 226E circa 1940 hauling a few undersized and mismatched tinplate 2640 passenger cars due to the Christmas rush and the short supply of passenger cars takes its turn around this year’s Christmas layout.

Barclay’s on the shelf.

Jim Kelly-Evans... I also love Elevated tracks. Although dealing only with windups, I find it hard to run them on EL's without them falling off the rails!! ha! (Electric might work better)

Daniel... French trains have such a distinct design. They're beautiful to look at also.

Merry Christmas everyone!! - Ariel

Nice pictures Ariel, well diplayed models and it must be fun to run them.

I like to see those pure tinplate models in action even if sometime a derailment may happen and do some damage....

Daniel

FRENCHTRAINS posted:

Was there actual a toy model made of this Challenger-esque locomotive?  If so I’d love to know more about it?

Unfortunately JEP has never produced a Mallet Challenger loco, I think it was only to geave the illusion that when buying their trains you where going to have a very large engine ... the model in the box is really small compare to a Challenger which has never been used in France.

Daniel

Elgaucho posted:

Jim Kelly-Evans... I also love Elevated tracks. Although dealing only with windups, I find it hard to run them on EL's without them falling off the rails!! ha! (Electric might work better)

Daniel... French trains have such a distinct design. They're beautiful to look at also.

Merry Christmas everyone!! - Ariel

Ariel - Reminds me of this shot of NYC elevated in 1895:

Great stuff!

PD

Hey Tinplaters...I was glad to pick up my first ever 2 Dorfan Cars at the recent Toy & Train Show in White Plains, NY. If ratbag is a category, I think the PRR boxcar may fit in: 

Still, there is something to be said for original paint and lettering, brake handles and couplers.

Tom 

Nice cars Tom! I’d love to find that simple orange Dorfan electric windup set one day. Because its lightweight, it’d run great on an EL track!

PD, I completely get my inspiration from jazz-era NYC or Chicago skylines (Funny you brought that photo up!) I love coming up with new building designs using old Bilt EZ and Richter Anchor blocks. And the idea of these with elevated trains adds a great sense of drama and entertainment! 

I think I am the king of "Ratbag" most of my collection has "Character "

Being Christmas it calls for something Red ...

Why would you restore something that had so much fun in its life LOL!

well sign me up for ratbag Friday! My Dorfans will fit right it.Those look great Tom. Like to get some more Dorfan myself, hopefully Santa will have a new job for me.

 Fatman there's no reason at all to even and think of restoring that beauty.

Frankly, I prefer well-worn examples. When I first got started in this I wanted all my stuff as pristine as possible, but now I have come to appreciate every nick and scratch...most likely some kid left those after many years of play, and that's okay by me. That said, some pieces just have to get a bit of refurbishment, and I'm okay with that too.

That Ives car looks far better in the photo than in person. I've never disassembled an Ives piece (not much disassembly would be required here...the thing is nearly falling to pieces when you pick it up) but this may be my first. I have a 'ratbag' 3251 to go with it, lol. I'll put pics of that up next week.

PD

Fatman posted:

I think I am the king of "Ratbag" most of my collection has "Character "

Being Christmas it calls for something Red ...

Why would you restore something that had so much fun in its life LOL!

I don't think I've ever seen one of those Fatman...no way I'd be 'restoring' that. Do you know what the number is on that loco?

PD

One of our good mates here on the tinplate forum passed a few years back, but he left us quite a few bits to remember him by:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFmEfFAlsWA

Especially poignant this time of year.

PD

 @pd I believe it is a 1935-7 1511 loco ... here is the other side

And Underneath ..

As you can see it has the Whistle unit (which could make it a 1508? the same as the Mickey Mouse but I believe they had a bell not a whistle?)

Any experts want to chime in lol , I see conflicting info all over the place, but I have called it a 1511 for now unless corrected

And yep again , sourced here locally in Australia ... how these things find there way here is a mystery lol ... I knew it was a fairly rare beasty and jumped on it

Thanks everyone for your posts.

They do bring a lifetime of happiness 

jhz563 posted:

FRENCHTRAINS posted:

 

Was there actual a toy model made of this Challenger-esque locomotive?  If so I’d love to know more about it?

I assume the locomotive on the box is not a Challenger but an (Erie or Virginian) Triplex locomotive. The same box was even used by JEP for smaller clockwork sets like this one:

Regards

Fred

sncf231e posted:

jhz563 posted:

FRENCHTRAINS posted:

 

Was there actual a toy model made of this Challenger-esque locomotive?  If so I’d love to know more about it?

I assume the locomotive on the box is not a Challenger but an (Erie or Virginian) Triplex locomotive. The same box was even used by JEP for smaller clockwork sets like this one:

 

Regards

Fred

Maybe it is more an artistic representation of a "big American locomotive" than something else; it seems to be a 2 8 6 ..... and the rest is lost in the drawing....

Very best,  Daniel

Wow.  That was fun to go through.  Some really interesting stuff.  I like it!

Love the railings around this elevated line! 

I found this on YouTube, a video from Tom McComas...I had the VHS tape at one point. At 8 minutes or so in is Phil Ambrose's song, A Lionel Christmas. Very nice song, highly recommend if you never saw/heard it! 

Tom 

watched this again just last night while I was tinkering on the platform

Found a lot of interesting trains in the last time.

Early Bing side tipping car 14197 from 1906

Bing watchmans house 10/6190 from 1930 (not complete)

Bing UK Signal 13903 from 1906 in box

Bing 3 french cars

Small station made by Heinrich Fischer in the 20s

Brimtoy set 400/5 from 1935

For the friends of elevated railways here a short update, my railway station is on work.

Arne

Ives 1122 pulling a Lionel 262 tender and a consist of late Ives litho freight with Lionel couplers around the tree..

Well, it pulled it for a little bit before the tender uncoupled.

George

Kibri strikes again

I hadn't realized Kibri made a full size postwar goods shed with crane until I found this at a TCA show last Sunday.  I put it on the layout and moved my Bing station back to the cabinets.  Here are the results.  Also, note the New Year's card my good friend Dirk Hertel produced from a photo of one of my large Kibri stations.  

Spent some time running trains, HORNBY  Northern Star with matching passenger set.

Daniel

400E smokeshow!

This week I redid a couple of items from the junk box I bought recently.

Dumped i here you can see a Noma street light, there were 4, and an American Flyer water tower.

I repainted and rewired the Noma lights.

The bulbs I have are too small but I'll fix that with my next parts order to Jeff Kane.

I also repainted the Flyer water tower. 

FRENCHTRAINS posted:

Spent some time running trains, HORNBY  Golden Star with matching passenger set.

Daniel

Surely  you mean the Northern Star--Etoile du Nord. Perhaps you were thinking about the Golden Arrow.

Lew

lewrail posted:

FRENCHTRAINS posted:

Spent some time running trains, HORNBY  Golden Star with matching passenger set.

Daniel

Surely  you mean the Northern Star--Etoile du Nord. Perhaps you were thinking about the Golden Arrow.

 

Lew

Thanks Lew, a little lack of attention.....  I also tested a Jep Golden Arrow.

All my best wishes, Daniel